Category: Adult Learning
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From Passive Listening to Active Learning
Rev. Dan Schroeder lays out a 12-week plan for moving the class from passive listening to active learning Weeks 1-2Give the participants 30 seconds to write down their thoughts on a question you pose. Example: “Take 30 seconds and write down as many reasons as you can about why it’s important that we have a…
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Using Tech to Create Connections, Part Five—Connecting Student to Student
“What do you think about the Messiah?” (Matthew 22:42) With that question, Jesus—the Master Teacher—invited his disciples to both reflect on an important question and verbalize their deeply held beliefs. They would benefit not only from stating their own answers but also from hearing the answers of their fellow disciples. In other words, it was…
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Using Tech to Create Connections, Part Four—Connecting Student and Content
As Jesus was leaving the temple courts, one of his disciples said to him, “Teacher, look what impressive stones these are, and what impressive buildings!” Jesus said to him, “Do you see these large buildings? There will not be one stone here left on top of another. They will all be thrown down.” (Mark 13:1,2)…
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Letter From the Editor: Sharing Deutschlander’s Love of Theology
Dear brothers, For the past few weeks I have been thinking about our now sainted brother in Christ, Daniel Deutschlander. As you no doubt know, the Lord called Dan home to heaven last month. All who knew him, whether personally or through his writings, will miss him. We thank the Lord for giving him the…
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Using Tech to Create Connections, Part Three—Connecting Student and Content
Last month, we talked about using videos to deliver content—a technique that can be employed in both face-to-face and remote learning situations. We’re talking here about brief, three- to five-minute bursts of information delivered via video. When the teacher uses video to deliver content, he or she gains a number of potential benefits: Efficiency of…
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Using Tech to Create Connections, Part Two—Connecting Student and Content
I used to be of the opinion that I was a little more of a serious thinker than many people because I read Atlantic Monthly, a serious, old-school magazine with page after page of block text. No pictures ever. Nope, no pictures for this guy because things like pictures, photos, images, diagrams, or charts—those were…
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Using Tech to Create Connections—Connecting Teacher and Student
We’ve all seen people type things at a keyboard that they would never say in person. We’ve all seen parents ignore their children or spouses ignore each other because their screens commanded their attention instead. We’ve all seen the criticism of remote learning and its difficulty in replicating the personal interaction that the face-to-face classroom…
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The Four Tools: Research
If you want the highest activity by each learner, what is your go-to tool? It’s research. Research is the fourth, and final, tool in our educator’s toolbox. Past articles have dealt with Lecture, Question/Answer (Questions, Open Questions, and Bad Answers), and Group Work.) What do we mean by research? When we hear the word “research,”…